Thursday, September 26, 2013

SIMPLE FALL DECOR-my front porch

Now, if only the afternoons would hurry up and catch up with my fave season,

I'd really be giddy.

As promised, here's a look at my front porch

and the simple/cheap fixes I made.By no means am I saying this is the most marvelous,eye catching, super cute porch hahaJUST some simple and inexpensive additions for those of uswho don't have a decor fund.If only ;)*The simple how-to's will be at the end.

Excuse my crooked sign lol

The breeze(yay) pushed it over.

First of all, I must give hubby credit for all the beautiful greenery you see.

90% of the decor is taken care of already lol

He's got the greenest thumb.

I on the other hand am so proud of myself for keeping 2 plants alive(barely),

inside our home for the last few years!

A real accomplishment friends haha.

My mom tries so hard to give me plants that she says,

are easy to care for and "shouldn't have any problems with".

She's taken a few plants BACK home with her, to revive them for me,

IF I haven't already drowned them or thirsted them to death ahahahaha.

I'm glad she keeps holding onto some hope,

she's got a super green thumb as well, I just didn't take after her :(

Most of the plants came from my Grama B's house after she passed.

I'm extremely blessed hubby has kept them alive and thriving.

I feel like my connection to her continues

because we have her plants, which she too cared for very well.

We've purchased some along the way.

The morning glories came from our backyard seeds

which hubby threw in the palm pots recently.

They took so well.

We had gotten the tan chairs years ago when they were clearanced

and the green ones from the thrift store.

The front mat came from the Grocery Outlet.

Years ago we filled each side with pavers while they were on sale at Home Depot

and purchased a trellis which we cut in half and put up on each side for some privacy.

The left trellis literally has ground cover growing on it.

We bought some for the area originally but then hubby thought to move it to the trellis

and see if he could insert some of it in between the slats for eventual growth/coverage.

It worked!

Ok, onto the things I did.

A few months ago hubby cut our cherry tree in the back and was going to chop

the branches down to throw out.

I stopped him and asked him to PLEASE save them for me.

I loved the knots on the branches and their rich brown color.

I didn't know when or how I'd use them.

He just goes along with my ideas now and let me keep them :)

I moved 4 of them to the front and tied with strips of old sheet I tore.

I then placed the little wood watering can I had thrifted a ways back,

on one of the smaller branches.

*I made those little orange pillows out of my son's outgrown

shorts!

I wanted some more orange out there

and remembered that these were in the rag pile

(anything that's too worn out or damaged we keep for spills or other yucky clean ups).

by rubbing the long side of chalk all over it and wiping off before writing on it.

-CARDBOARD TO CHALKBOARD SIGN-

I originally cut the arrow for our announcement pics with an x-acto knife, painted with the chalkboard paint I mixed and held onto it for future use. It's not a perfect surface but works on the quick and again free & cheap!I also had cardboard rolls/tubes from Dollar Tree glow in the dark necklaces, which are packed inside.Thankfully I didn't have to purchase those either,as they were purchased last year for the PTA movie night and I asked if I could have them.Keeping trash? Why not hahaha

I used my letter opener and poked a holes on both sidesand through the tubes.I then used twine which is currently at Dollar Tree but already had on handand cut 2 long strings.

The 1st would be to for the top portion to hang and the 2ndwould be for the sign.I poked holes on both sides of the sign, tied the string on each endand wrote my "WELCOME"THAT'S IT!

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